Apple and the color black.

[revenuee]

as i recall

white does mean death in asian cultures -- so the white/black thing being a western thing is right

i believe in asia red is the color worn to denote purity at a wedding rather then white

as far as black and white on ying and yang --- ya, if i remember my easter religion class correctly that has nothing to do with good and evil well not entiraly... but rather with male and female, heaven and earth, day and night, light and dark

because it has to do with balance off two forces, the concept has been bastardized by western culture to mean good and evil because this culture seems to focus on the balance between good and evil (christian thought) and those same idea of black and white as already mentioned by someone

ANYWAY

it weird about color denotation in companies

you find with camera equipment silver is often consumer level products, while black is the professional line

look at canon and nikon

you look at the trend of consumer electronics and you'll notice a trend toward the metallic look --- my families LCD TV, surround sound and receiver, DVD player, HDTV/DTV receiver, even the new VCR are all metallic ... my mother redid the entire kitchen with metallic finish (dishwasher,stove,fridge,microwave,toaster, ect)

i have a black lombard and it looks okay ... although i think the alum looks slick on the new laptops looks slick i'de be just as happy with a black one, just as long as it was slim ... with that said ... i can't see the powermacs changing anytime soon since the LCD's have been changed to alum not to long ago -- i think they would want to keep them the same for at least a little longer ...

also if you look at the trend ... they tend to keep the color sceme for generation of processors ...

early G3's were beige, then the later ones blue and white, then the g4's were graphite, although the design changed from the original G4 tower to the last g4 tower they still stayed relatively true the look, then G5 powermacs have this new metallic look.

i could see the color changing for either

G6 <-- which i don't see happening anytime soon

or G5 dual core <--- it would seem right since it is technically a new generation.

i don't see them going with any crazy colors though, at least not in the power line up.

well that was a long post ... sorry


Rev.

 

[anjaki]

black chrome!

 

[chaos86]

i think its pretty obvious. spotlight. to have a spotlight you need surrounding darkness. its just an advertising device.

that said i think a polished shiny black PM would look awesome. for a week. til dust, scratches, and fingerprints get near it.

 

[jsalzer]

Smoke Acryllic

Hey, I love the look of my Pismo. Until the iMac G5 came out, I held that it was the "last good-looking thing that Apple put out."

(The original iBooks would have been there if not for the white/offwhite conflicts.)

Anywho - my vote is for Smoke Acryllic - at maybe 90 percent opacity (not see-through). I love the durability of the acryllic, and the smoke has all the benefits of beautiful black without its down sides.

And bring back the black keyboard and mouse, will ya? In fact, the keys on the black keyboard are just about the perfect smoke color for the next PowerBook!!!

 

[Cheese]

10 points to the first one who paints their new iMac with an 88 cent can of glossy black spray. Ready! Set! SSSPPPRRRAAAYYY!!!! Looks very ... CRAPTACULAR!!! (Thanks Advocate. BTW, is that you very own word? If so, Can I start using it too?) Any Apple products that are black, simply have evolved from the color of Sir. Steve's shirt! Within the reality distortion field, anything can be any color.... whoa I'm green again!

 

[nikeballa09]

i believe that apple went with the black theme for tiger because the black/silver theme with orange print is catchy. it attracts the human eye. also the orange font color looks better with a black background rather then a white one. if you look at the rest of the site, its still primarily white and silver. i dont think apple is gonna stray from their present color scheme for quite some time because consumers know apples for their stylish white and silver computer cases. i believe the temporary black theme is just advertising to help sell tiger, and get it noticed. thats just my two cents.

 

[840quadra]

Besides the TAM (which was more of a platnum color) I believe the previous was the only Macintosh that came in Black, besides the Powerbook series.

Because of the color, the Macintosh TV almost looks like it could pass as New. Black is hard to make go out of style..

 

[Xeem]

The iBook, on the other hand, I do like. Everybody has copied the metallic silver look by now, but it seems like white is still basically just used on Mac/iPod accessories.

Looks like I may have to take that back, several sites are reporting today that the X-Box 360 and its peripherals are completely white. These haven't been officially confirmed, but it's not like Microsoft has copied Apple designs before, right???

 

[GorillaPaws]

Not to split hairs but.... black is a shade, not a color.

Anyways, a couple of future ideas for the future of mac styling are:
the color shifting light-up scheme that was mentioned a while back as a patent Apple filed; Wood finnish?; or if Jobs really got crazy, some form of color liquid gel encased in clear acrylic (the lava lamp computer styling, bongs are an optional accessory).

 

[EJBasile]

I disagree. I actually preferred the looks of the Pismo to the looks of the TiBooks (and subsequent aluminum books), and still do. The iBook, on the other hand, I do like. Everybody has copied the metallic silver look by now, but it seems like white is still basically just used on Mac/iPod accessories.

Plasitic metal look in most cases though.


I think silver for now is fine. There computers still look better than the competition and very modern. I don't think they'll do any black. A black iBook might be cool though because it has that shiny plastic.

 

[Platform]

Black PM's well maby but want to see a priview first before they go into production...can look very bad if done wrongly